In a scenario that psychiatry professor Michael Stone called “unique in the annals of female crime,” U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak was arrested after she drove 900 miles to attempt to kidnap a woman she believed was romantically involved with a male space colleague. Dr. Keith Ablow, another psychiatrist, theorized that Nowak, who when taken into custody was wearing a diaper and was in possession of a BB gun, pepper spray, garbage bags, and rubber tubing, may very well have “unresolved issues.”NY TimesMSNBCMSNBC and ABC NewsReverend Ted Haggard declared himself “completely heterosexual,”NY Timesand Rudy Giuliani officially declared his candidacy for the presidency of the United States.CNN Donatella Versace told Hillary Clinton to stop wearing pants.ReutersIn Washington state, proponents of same-sexmarriage pursued legislation that would annul all connubial unions still barren after three years,Washington Newsand Austrian federalpolice uncovered a child pornography ring involving 2,360 suspects in more than 77 countries.BBC NewsA “fascist climate” settled over parts of Italy as soccer fans were banned from local stadiums.BBC NewsKeith Urban, a country singer, sued Keith Urban, a painter, after the latter Urban registered the Internet domain name keithurban.com “with the intent of producing confusion.”Playfuls.com A New York state senator was considering legislation to fine anyone caught crossing the street while listening to an iPod,Reutersa Philadelphia city councilman proposed the adoption of rubber sidewalks,iwon newsand U.S. Representative Joe Baca denied calling a congressional colleague a “whore.”Raw StorySinkholes were endangering the nation’s roads.NY TimesA study conducted at the University of Chicago found that 14 percent of American doctors thought it was morally acceptable to lie to their patients about treatment options.Daily TelegraphIn Texas, elementary school children were increasingly becoming addicted to “cheese,” a potentially lethal combination of heroin and Tylenol PM. “Any child anywhere can afford a hit of cheese,” said a detective. “It’s just horrific.”ABC NewsA BritishMuslim high school was under criticism for using textbooks that depicted Jews as apes and Christians as pigs and predicted that all non-believers would be condemned to hellfire.This LondonRemote-controlled “zombie computers” attacked three of the world’s largest Internet servers,Boing Boingand Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, said he wasn’t sure if the paper would still be printed in five years. “And you know what?” Sulzberger added. “I don’t care.”Haaretz

â€śEight months pregnant I told an old woman sitting beside me on the bus that the egg that hatched my baby came from my wifeâ€™s ovaries. I didnâ€™t know how the old woman would take it; one can never know. She was delighted: Thatâ€™s like a fairy tale!â€ť

â€śBetween 2007 and 2010, Albanyâ€™s poverty rate jumped 12 points, to a record high of 39.9 percent. More than two thirds of Albanyâ€™s 76,000 residents are black, and since 2010, their poverty rate has climbed even higher, to nearly 42 percent.â€ť

â€śWe think we are the only people in the world who live with threat, but we have to work with regional leaders who will work with us. Bibi is taking the country into unprecedented international isolation.â€ť

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Ratio of money spent by Britons on prostitution to that spent on hairdressing:

â€śShelby is waiting for something. He himself does not know what it is. When it comes he will either go back into the world from which he came, or sink out of sight in the morass of alcoholism or despair that has engulfed other vagrants.â€ť